Interview and Discussion on the Potential of AI to Transform Healthcare with Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes

Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a crucial role in the healthcare industry by helping doctors, patients and hospital administrators. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is defined as computing systems which are capable of performing tasks that humans are very good at, for example recognising objects, recognising and making sense of speech, and decision making in a constrained environment. For the purposes of this article, Machine Learning and Deep Learning (Deep Neural Networks) are defined as sub-branches of AI. See the Appendix for a more detailed explanation of these areas. Healthcare systems were already under a substantial strain before the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic. This strain has only increased since the pandemic and may cause challenges that persist for many years. It takes many years and costly resources to train healthcare workers. Specialist medical practitioners tend to be in short supply and often work long hours.